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It was 3 years ago this month when I started experiencing the signs and symptoms of panic attacks. I was walking to school one day and suddenly, I felt dizzy, lightheaded, and a pressure on my chest. The first day I thought it was just some test jitters, because I had my final exams that [...]

Life can be difficult. There are many challenges that we face on a daily basis that can cause us to worry excessively. Having anxiety about things such as finances or the state of our families can lead us to panic attacks. Overcoming anxiety is not an easy thing but it can be done. Panic attacks [...]

Mental Health – Relationship between Suicide and Self-Harm Suicide and self harm in connection with serious mental illness based on sudden changes in mood, behavior, thoughts, and experience the very unpleasant symptoms. People with serious mental illness are at extreme risk of suicide and self harm. What is the relationship between suicide and self harm? [...]

WHAT IS SOCIAL PHOBIA? Social phobia – or social anxiety – is the fear of interacting with others in various situations: groups, work, school, parties, on the telephone, in a market or store, and so on. People with social phobia experience extreme anxiety or panic when they know that they have to talk or interact [...]

Many years ago, when I became a psychotherapist, all I knew was the traditional psychotherapy that I had learned in school, and that I had personally experienced with many different therapists and many different forms of therapy. For 18 years I practiced what I had learned, and I was never happy with the results. I [...]

An anxiety or panic attack can be one of the most debilitating things to happen to someone as at that moment, nothing seems what it actually is and there is only an overwhelming fear of some imagined impending danger. This attack is more serious than it sounds as it totally overpowers the reasoning powers of [...]

Stressed by an upcoming exam? Plagued by text anxiety? Has your mind ever gone blank because your stress levels went out of control? Have you ever looked at a test after you got it back and realized you could have done better if only you would have kept your cool? You’re not alone. And you [...]

No man is an island. Whilst it?s tempting at times to pretend that other people don?t exist, we need friends, peers, co-workers and family members, in order to be productive, emotionally stable and satisfied. You can imagine then how much it costs a person when he or she has Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). To be [...]

Individuals with mental health conditions rarely get the help they deserve. Despite the great access to quality information today, many still operate under the bias that psychological disorders are things you can just ?shrug off?, a mere product of a hypersensitive mind. As a result, many would rather suffer in silence, than consider seeking professional [...]

For a long time, Social Anxiety Disorder has been termed as the ?neglected? anxiety problem. Many, even those in the mental health profession, dismiss it as mere shyness or social awkwardness. It is only in recent years that there is the recognition that social anxiety is actually a debilitating and chronic illness, one that affects [...]

It is normal to feel nervous, even intimated, when in the presence of other people. This is especially true when we are around those whose opinions matter to us, like an employer, a potential life partner, or a peer. We are always vulnerable to the scrutiny of others, and at any moment people around us [...]

Anyone who has grappled with the concepts of existential philosophy will appreciate the difficulty of applying it to their own life. The writings of Nietzsche, Sartre or Heidegger for example, whilst original and innovative, are complex and difficult to grasp. Their ideas also challenge the premise on which much of Western thinking is based. Nietzsche [...]

We live in crazy times. Some of us have lost our homes, our life savings, our financial security. Others are one paycheck away from financial disaster. And the world is an uncertain place – the crime rate is up, Global Warming is getting worse, the US is in the midst of two wars, the Middle [...]

“I can have a really great day, but when I wake up the next morning I feel anxious. Sometimes the better day I’ve had, the more anxious I am the next morning. I can’t figure it out.” I hear this over and over from my clients. What is happening here? THE TYRANNY OF THE EGO [...]

Current explanations of the cause and cure of problems involving such things as: extreme nervousness, anxiety and panic; obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviour; phobias and depression have failed millions of people looking to understand and overcome these problems. Beliefs about illness / medical / genetic causes and treatments based upon these beliefs have not even [...]